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Name:
Amaryllis
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Botanical name:
Amaryllis
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Colour:
Pure white, pillarbox red, candy pink, peach. There are also striped varieties and ones with frilled or coloured edges to the petals.
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Name:
Baby's Breath
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Botanical name:
Gypsophila
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Colour:
Gypsophila has a chalky white flower, although cream and pale pink varieties are sometimes found.
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Meaning:
The botanical name means 'lover of chalk' - as this is the sort of soil the plant likes to grow in.
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Name:
Bird of Paradise
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Botanical name:
Strelitzia
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Colour:
A green 'beak' with a bright orange and blue crest, silvery-green leaves.
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Meaning:
Named Strelitzia after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Streliz, who married King George III to become Queen of England in 1761.
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Name:
Bouvardia
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Botanical name:
Bouvardia
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Colour:
Shades of pinks and red as well as white.
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Meaning:
The flowers are named after Parisian doctor Charles Bouvard, personal physician to Louis XIII and director of the Jardin des Plantes.
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Name:
Calla Lillies
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Botanical name:
Zantedeschia
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Colour:
Available all year round in shades of pinks, pale creams, and flesh tones, purple-black, yellow and terracotta oranges.
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Meaning:
Calla was the old Victorian name for them before they were renamed Zantedeschia.
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Name:
Carnation
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Botanical name:
Dianthus
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Colour:
Available in a huge range of colours, almost all except blue. A mauve carnation with a blue tinge has been developed by Florigene in Australia. But they look best in hot Latin shades of red, pink and orange.
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Meaning:
Dianthus, its botanical name, means divine flower. Carnation was the flesh-pink colour Elizabethan portrait painters used as a background wash.
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Name:
Cattelya
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Botanical name:
Cattelya
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Colour:
They occur in all colours except true blue and black.
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Name:
Christmas Rose
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Botanical name:
Hellebore
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Colour:
H. niger is either bright purest white, or a warm deep purple. H. corsicus has green or cream bell-like cups in clusters, while H. orientalis has speckled and streaked flowers in unusual shades of cream, green, purple and pink.
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Name:
Chrysanthemum
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Botanical name:
Chrysanthemum
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Colour:
All colours including bronze, lime green and brick red, except blue (which are artificially dyed for special events).
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Meaning:
Comes from the Greek 'krus anthemon' meaning gold flower. However nowadays they come in all colours.
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Name:
Cockscomb
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Botanical name:
Celosia
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Colour:
Hot pinks, purples, golds and oranges, or strange shades of flesh, bronze and pale green.
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Meaning:
Celosia cristata means crinkled celosia. Some are so crinkled they are almost circular like a brain, though most are a fan or cockscomb shape. Celosia plumosa is a pointed, flame-shaped flower, very fluffy, like brightly coloured pampas grass.
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Name:
Crocosmia
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Botanical name:
Crocosmia
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Colour:
Fiery yellow, orange, red and tan colours.
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Meaning:
The name name 'Crocosmia' comes from the Latin 'croceus' meaning saffron coloured (ie golden orange).
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Name:
Cymbidium
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Botanical name:
Cymbidium
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Colour:
Green, white, 'make-up' shades and pink.
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Meaning:
Pronounced SIM-bid-ee-um. Cymibidium is the Latin translation of kumbidion, Greek for little boat, alluding to the flower shape.
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Name:
Daffodil
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Botanical name:
Narcissus
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Colour:
Over 25,000 varieties in shades of yellow, white, orange and peachy pink.
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Meaning:
All daffodils are narcissi, but not all narcissi are daffodils! The flower is named after Narcissus in Greek legend. 'Narcissus' comes from the Greek for 'numbness' referring to the narcotic properties of the plant.
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Name:
Dahlia
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Botanical name:
Dahlia
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Colour:
Varying shades of bright pinks and oranges.
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Name:
Delphinium
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Botanical name:
Delphinium
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Colour:
Shades of blue, purple and white mostly, but salmon and yellow forms available too.
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Meaning:
From the Latin 'delphis' meaning dolphin, from the shape of the buds. Pronounced del-FINNY-um.
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Name:
Dill
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Botanical name:
Anethum graveolens
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Colour:
Delicate lime or golden yellow.
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Meaning:
The botanical name is Anethem graveolens. Graveolens means having a strong scent.
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Name:
Eucharis
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Botanical name:
Eucharis
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Colour:
Pure white with a delicate apple green centre.
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Name:
Euphorbia
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Botanical name:
Euphorbia
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Colour:
Red, orange, yellow, salmon pink or white flowers.
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Name:
Forsythia
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Botanical name:
Forsythia
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Colour:
Bright yellow.
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Meaning:
It is named in honour of William Forysth, director of the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1770, maker of the first rock garden in the UK and one of the founders of the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Name:
Foxtail Lily
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Botanical name:
Eremus
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Colour:
Very Middle Eastern coloured flowerspikes of yellow, orange, cream and sandy-pink resembling firework rockets.
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Meaning:
The botanical name Eremurus comes from the Greek for 'desert tail', referring both to the origins of the flower and its shape.
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Name:
Freesia
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Botanical name:
Freesia
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Colour:
Wide range including yellows, red, pinks and white.
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Meaning:
After Dr Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese, a German physician.
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Name:
Geraldton
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Botanical name:
Waxflower
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Colour:
Dark pink, pale pink, white.
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Name:
Gerbera
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Botanical name:
Gerbera
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Colour:
Gerberas offer an incredibly wide range of colours with every colour except blue represented (including fashionable shades of buff and maroon).
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Name:
Ginger
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Botanical name:
Alpinia
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Colour:
Clear pink or red.
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Meaning:
Named after Prospero Alpinio, a doctor-botanist of the 1500s.
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Name:
Gladiolus
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Botanical name:
Gladiolus
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Colour:
White and soft pastels, pinks, oranges, peach, yellow, red and purple.
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Meaning:
From the Latin 'gladius', meaning 'sword', relating to their leaf shape.
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Name:
Glory Lily
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Botanical name:
Gloriosa
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Colour:
Red through to cerise with yellow edges.
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Meaning:
This splendid and exotic lily was named after Baron Z.W. Rothschild, an authority on birds, who brought the flower from Africa and entered it at an exhibition of the English Horticultural Society at the turn of the century.
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Name:
Grape hyacinth
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Botanical name:
Muscari
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Colour:
Shades of blue including navy as well as lilac and white.
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Name:
Hyacinth
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Botanical name:
Hyacinth
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Colour:
Usually white, pink, peach and blue. More unusual colours to look for include dark wine purples , rosy reds, navy, egg-yolk yellows and soft oranges.
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Meaning:
The word hyacinth comes from the Greek Hyakinthos, a handsome young man who in Greek mythology was loved by the sun god Apollo. One day they were practising throwing the discus but the jealous god of the West Wind, who was also in love with Hyakinthos, blew the discus back and it fatally wounded him. From his blood grew a flower which the god Apollo named after him.
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Name:
Iris
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Botanical name:
Iris
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Colour:
Navy, blue, white, yellow and combinations; also browns and lilacs.
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